What is out in space? Archives – Page 8 of 9

As we settle into October, many start turning their attention towards the fall and Halloween. Scientists turn their attention to the…

An asteroid recently came blazing through our solar system and it appears to be an interstellar visitor. The asteroid, dubbed A/2017 U1,…

A new field of science is born – astromaterial science. First mentioned in today’s paper, this scientific field studies materials of…

Big News! Astrophysics receives a gift. Interferometers at LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves coming from two neutron stars…

Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in the middle of nowhere. This nearly record-breaking…

1.76 billion light years away, two black holes smashed into one another, bearing one huge black hole the size of 53 suns. The explosion from…

There is overwhelming evidence to support the existence of dark matter, but its existence is still a mystery to physicists. A method called…

Large stars and planets in space have intense gravity. The gravity of these large celestial bodies is so strong, that they actually warp the…

At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. This is normal — at the center of almost every galaxy there is…

Today, Nature published the landmark discovery of a system of seven planets around a star named TRAPPIST-1 about 40 light years away. This…

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